With championship battles continuing to evolve in both classes, the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series has entered America’s Heartland for a Saturday night race on Kansas Speedway’s new “roval.”

Kansas now boasts a 2.37-mile road circuit that combines a six-turn infield set-up and a sizable portion of the familiar 1.5-mile oval that hosts NASCAR Sprint Cup action twice a year.

It’s the third new venue of 2013 for the Rolex Series, which has already made debuts at Circuit of the Americas (Austin, Tex.) and Road Atlanta (Braselton, Ga.).

After suffering a mechanical failure at Road America last weekend, the No. 2 Starworks BMW/Riley team of Alex Popow and Ryan Dalziel saw their lead in the Daytona Prototype championship chopped to just four points over the No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing duo of Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty.

Action Express Racing’s Christian Fittipaldi (-7 points) and Joao Barbosa (-9 points) are also within single digits of Popow and Dalziel with three races left in the season.

The Rolex Series’ Grand Touring championship is proving every bit as exciting as well. Consistent results toward the front have allowed the winless No. 44 Magnus Racing Porsche team of Andy Lally and John Potter to keep hold of the top spot in the class.

But their lead is still just a slim seven markers over John Edwards and Robin Liddell in the No. 57 Stevenson Motorsports Camaro. Alessandro Balzan (-11 points), in the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 458, is also in on the chase as well.

According to the Associated Press, track officials are hopeful for a turnout of around 15,000 to 20,000 for Saturday night’s 2-hour, 45-minute race. A decent crowd can only help Kansas in its efforts to be included on next year’s inaugural schedule for the new United SportsCar Racing.

“They have to make some decisions for 2014 that are some tough decisions,” Kansas Speedway president Pat Warren told the AP’s Dave Skretta.

“As they try to figure out how they want to grow the series – what they want to do to bring [GRAND-AM and the American Le Mans Series] together – we just don’t know where we fit in that picture.”

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What the hell are they smoking at 16th and Georgetown? I understand wanting to add additional events at the Brickyard but Indycars were made to run on the oval there, not on some Mickey-Mouse style infield roval.